If I pick a penny from your pocket it's no great loss, but it's wrong is the single most effective statement I have ever seen against people who have no problem with 'minor' intrusions against their privacy. I want to use this quote and give you credit for it. This is an true classic. Way to go man:)
I believe it is self evident that it is wrong to be sending information about your computer, uninvited, to someone else's machine. It's bad enough that the web browser encroaches into this area.
Second of all, ID gave no mention of this in their EULA or website or anywhere else. This is a common courtesy, I don't care what the rest of you think. If information is being sent to a third party site, when you're playing Quake 3, then you should be told it's being sent. That needs no justification. It is common courtesy. Period.
Stop being a bunch of complacent sheep. When it comes to your privacy rights there is no "I don't see anything wrong with this" or "let's not get ridiculous, people" or "lighten up." There is a solid law against this kind of behavior, and there is the solid issue of common courtesy. Stop bowing down, people!
Actually I find the lessons behind Mr. Cribb's experience - that you cannot live solely by doing things over the internet - to be a little disheartening considering the incredibly positive environmental impact that the internet promises to have on society. Not too disheartening, but a little.
For one, if we achieve its true potential, we will have a mostly paperless society. This will shrink the market for trees (although houses will still be made from wood).
Air pollution would be drastically cut by the large scale adoption of telecommuting. (So why not take those extra few hours saved from the daily commute, and go out and volunteer or something like that?)
As for the Mr. Cribb's problem of trying to contact people via email, well stereotypically in a largely online age he might want to contact them via something like MSN Messenger, AIM or ICQ. That is, if they are online with it. The internet phone is right around the corner, and will flourish with the advent of widely deployed Cable Modems / DSL / wireless internet (Ricochet) service. He can just dial up someone on the internet, free of charge, and chat that way. But the infrastructure for reliable internet phone usage, is still a while away...
The main overlapping theme in his story is the expensive nature of the "grocery" services. This can't be solved. The 'online grocer' business probably won't survive for long, anyways. The cost of delivering goods is too high to justify delivering one or two items, for one. If all he ordered was a stick of deodorant in one shipment, no wonder it cost $14 (Canadian)! That is one unconquerable hurdle. The need to have your goods delivered ASAP, is another one the online grocer cannot handle. Need I go on with this??? heh.
Anyways..we also know alllll about the online chat versus the meeting people in person thing. Or.. wait a minute.. do we? Perhaps Mr. Cribb's social life is based on a large number of people and activities that are offline. If this is the case then leaving him stuck online is like putting him on a desert island away from his home town. But..... but....... suppose you're a 19 year old guy whose passions are comic books, japanese animation, Linux, and weird alternative music? Do you want to go hang out with people who basically go by the "comic books suck! you better do what I do for fun or I'll call you names and make you feel bad" school of (non)thought? Heck no! Once the online option is presented to someone like that, they're known to lock out the outside world except for work and grocery shopping. In short the online chat phenomenon is a godsend for non conformists seeking fellowship. (Much to the dismay of the researchers and military minds who first created the net...lol... talk about your classic indians and settlers conflict!) The drawback is that it is apparent, in Mr. Cribb's own experience, that showers become optional, and I'm willing to bet that also goes for brushing one's teeth. Can we say 'health hazard'? It is certainly proof of the well known fact that the net has certain socially and medically corrosive effects if it becomes an addiction. (To say nothing about a lack of an incentive to exercise.)
Okay back to my point. Robert Cribb's experience brought him full circle right back to square one: while the paperless office/society, and the promise of telecommuting, makes the net a valuable and eco-friendly resource, there are still some things in real life that it cannot replace.
don't ask me where I read this but our solar system seems to be rich in carbon, and other star systems aren't suspected to be so abundant in carbon, and we need it as much as oxygen to support life. I wish I had the newspaper article I read that from..darn.. anyways that's my 2 cents!
he's very right..please moderate this up :)
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The proof of extrasolar planets, the attention being given to string theory, and the revitalized possibility of extraterrestrial life, is all proof that there is still more to this universe than we think.
Maybe there's more to this universe than we even hoped and dreamed. Who's with me on that!! hehe
It is known that suns will swallow up planets. This one is not the first gas giant found to be very close to its parent sun. Scientists discovered a gas giant 1/2 of Jupiter's size, and it was close as Mercury's orbit - in fact I found the URL for details about this: http://earthsky.worldofscience.com/1998/es980809.h tml My best guess is that these planets are spiraling in towards their parent sun and will be gobbled up. Neither planet could have formed at this close distance. They have to be spiraling in.
The atmospheres of jovian planets make great potential windowmaker backgrounds (see: all those artist conceptions of Jupiter:), but the terrestrial planets are gonna be the really interesting ones.
When they refine their telescopes to scan for terrestrial sized worlds, I say there should be a huge kitty involved. Every terrestrial planet discovered earns $1 in the kitty from every astronomer. The astronomer who finds even one tiny virus or pool of living sludge or arachnid monsters or whatever, gets the whole kitty.
And even common citizens can get involved. I'll call it ante@home:)
what flamewar? KDE and GNOME claimed to be working together on such things as Drag and Drop. If you mean there is a flamewar between the users of GNOME and KDE, you have a point. But the users are not the product/product design team. Take me, for instance. I'm just an armchair critic. I've never contributed a line of code to KDE or GNOME, though I wish I knew enough that I could. Any flame war I start or get into (or avoid:) is indicative of me as a user, not KDE or GNOME themselves.
Which isn't to deny the validity of your underlying issue; many Linux users need to read the Linux Advocacy HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.htm l so we don't become like the *** crowd.:)
actually given the swift evolution of computers I would say major changes will come, or will need to come, in about 1-2 years. By then I think we can expect fully consistent drag and drop support, as well as anti aliased fonts and more advanced transparency (for all you transparent rxvt freaks out there:). Of course the other, minor things should be ironed out by then, such as theme pack design utilities, and menus that can be placed anywhere in the program window. I would not cry if KDE made a windows/internet explorer system out of konqueror, for the desktop. I like drag and drop and I like the ease of use of windows, with the power of linux. I also see audio and video editing applications coming to the desktop (no doubt a lot of it being commercial), as well as a LOT of games.:)
I have some questions. How does KDE plan on reconciling the differences between the QPL and the GPL? Source modifications apparently can only be released in the form of patches, and Stallman says it is incompatible with the GPL. Also, what are the terms of the rumored version 2.0 of the QPL? Or is there even such a thing?
Also, will KDE 2.0 have the ability to drag and drop objects between KDE/non-KDE applications? I keep hearing about an old drag and drop protocol in X, but I never see any apps actually using it in any way I can tell. KDE does it with kfm but I'd like to, say, drag a mp3 over to koffice and have it embedded, or to kmp3/xmms/gqmpeg and have it load up automatically.:) Is this possible?
It is the tone that made it look like a racist remark. It reeked of stereotypes. The exact quote is: Welcome to Vietnam, plenty of humidity and all the rice you can eat.
Heh. Wanna talk about strategy? Try Risk. Or any SSI board game. That's strategy. Even if it is turn based, it is still superior. Heck, try SSI online and look up their simulations, those whip the tar out of anything Blizzard and Westwood have done. I prefer Panzer General over Command and Conquer any day.
why would the military be even looking at starcraft and total annihilation and command and conquer as any kind of reference tool?
[recruiter]: Why do you want to join the US Army? [moron]: I've played 8000 hours of Starcraft and I am ranked #1 on BattleNet! I can whup any enemy! [recruiter]: Hmmmmm. I see. Well I think you have potential. See that man with the white jacket at the door?...
I am not arguing with anyone. I am not giving my money to someone who won't support a product. I'm not going to buy this game and then spend hours downloading it on my 57.6ahem53.0 connection. There's no way. It ain't gonna happen. end of discussion.
AOL has worked hard towards improving its security, after all those 1996-1997 break-ins with AOHell and all the 'email me your password' scams. In fact the last time I heard of someone hacking into AOL was about 1997. Which isn't to say AOL or any other network can ever be considered truly hack proof, but their security appears to be greatly improved.
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If I pick a penny from your pocket it's no great loss, but it's wrong is the single most effective statement I have ever seen against people who have no problem with 'minor' intrusions against their privacy. I want to use this quote and give you credit for it. This is an true classic. Way to go man
I believe it is self evident that it is wrong to be sending information about your computer, uninvited, to someone else's machine. It's bad enough that the web browser encroaches into this area.
Second of all, ID gave no mention of this in their EULA or website or anywhere else. This is a common courtesy, I don't care what the rest of you think. If information is being sent to a third party site, when you're playing Quake 3, then you should be told it's being sent. That needs no justification. It is common courtesy. Period.
Stop being a bunch of complacent sheep. When it comes to your privacy rights there is no "I don't see anything wrong with this" or "let's not get ridiculous, people" or "lighten up." There is a solid law against this kind of behavior, and there is the solid issue of common courtesy. Stop bowing down, people!
Now, on to part 2.
show me the product.
or:
image is nothing
obey my thirst
The North Koreans who died by our hands may have been shot by black helicopters.
Or those kids in Panama who got listed as 'collateral damage'.
I am all for bandwidth co-ops. When are those guys in San Francisco going to show the rest of us how it's done??
I can't believe I missed this article
I was going to post the VERY EXACT SAME THING you just did.
long live geek pride!
can we say 'vaporware'?
Man, you have a long memory, whoever you are. I salute ya. I was going to post a remark about Trinity myself and you beat me to it. Grrrrr! hehe
As the young Princess Leia :)
I buy stuff on there all the time. If they're pulling any crap I am going somewhere else ASAP.
Actually I find the lessons behind Mr. Cribb's experience - that you cannot live solely by doing things over the internet - to be a little disheartening considering the incredibly positive environmental impact that the internet promises to have on society. Not too disheartening, but a little.
For one, if we achieve its true potential, we will have a mostly paperless society. This will shrink the market for trees (although houses will still be made from wood).
Air pollution would be drastically cut by the large scale adoption of telecommuting. (So why not take those extra few hours saved from the daily commute, and go out and volunteer or something like that?)
As for the Mr. Cribb's problem of trying to contact people via email, well stereotypically in a largely online age he might want to contact them via something like MSN Messenger, AIM or ICQ. That is, if they are online with it. The internet phone is right around the corner, and will flourish with the advent of widely deployed Cable Modems / DSL / wireless internet (Ricochet) service. He can just dial up someone on the internet, free of charge, and chat that way. But the infrastructure for reliable internet phone usage, is still a while away...
The main overlapping theme in his story is the expensive nature of the "grocery" services. This can't be solved. The 'online grocer' business probably won't survive for long, anyways. The cost of delivering goods is too high to justify delivering one or two items, for one. If all he ordered was a stick of deodorant in one shipment, no wonder it cost $14 (Canadian)! That is one unconquerable hurdle. The need to have your goods delivered ASAP, is another one the online grocer cannot handle. Need I go on with this??? heh.
Anyways..we also know alllll about the online chat versus the meeting people in person thing. Or.. wait a minute.. do we? Perhaps Mr. Cribb's social life is based on a large number of people and activities that are offline. If this is the case then leaving him stuck online is like putting him on a desert island away from his home town. But..... but....... suppose you're a 19 year old guy whose passions are comic books, japanese animation, Linux, and weird alternative music? Do you want to go hang out with people who basically go by the "comic books suck! you better do what I do for fun or I'll call you names and make you feel bad" school of (non)thought? Heck no! Once the online option is presented to someone like that, they're known to lock out the outside world except for work and grocery shopping. In short the online chat phenomenon is a godsend for non conformists seeking fellowship. (Much to the dismay of the researchers and military minds who first created the net...lol... talk about your classic indians and settlers conflict!) The drawback is that it is apparent, in Mr. Cribb's own experience, that showers become optional, and I'm willing to bet that also goes for brushing one's teeth. Can we say 'health hazard'? It is certainly proof of the well known fact that the net has certain socially and medically corrosive effects if it becomes an addiction. (To say nothing about a lack of an incentive to exercise.)
Okay back to my point. Robert Cribb's experience brought him full circle right back to square one: while the paperless office/society, and the promise of telecommuting, makes the net a valuable and eco-friendly resource, there are still some things in real life that it cannot replace.
don't ask me where I read this but our solar system seems to be rich in carbon, and other star systems aren't suspected to be so abundant in carbon, and we need it as much as oxygen to support life. I wish I had the newspaper article I read that from..darn.. anyways that's my 2 cents!
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The proof of extrasolar planets, the attention being given to string theory, and the revitalized possibility of extraterrestrial life, is all proof that there is still more to this universe than we think.
Maybe there's more to this universe than we even hoped and dreamed. Who's with me on that!! hehe
It is known that suns will swallow up planets. This one is not the first gas giant found to be very close to its parent sun. Scientists discovered a gas giant 1/2 of Jupiter's size, and it was close as Mercury's orbit - in fact I found the URL for details about this: http://earthsky.worldofscience.com/1998/es980809.h tml My best guess is that these planets are spiraling in towards their parent sun and will be gobbled up. Neither planet could have formed at this close distance. They have to be spiraling in.
The atmospheres of jovian planets make great potential windowmaker backgrounds (see: all those artist conceptions of Jupiter :), but the terrestrial planets are gonna be the really interesting ones.
:)
When they refine their telescopes to scan for terrestrial sized worlds, I say there should be a huge kitty involved. Every terrestrial planet discovered earns $1 in the kitty from every astronomer. The astronomer who finds even one tiny virus or pool of living sludge or arachnid monsters or whatever, gets the whole kitty.
And even common citizens can get involved. I'll call it ante@home
what flamewar? KDE and GNOME claimed to be working together on such things as Drag and Drop. If you mean there is a flamewar between the users of GNOME and KDE, you have a point. But the users are not the product/product design team. Take me, for instance. I'm just an armchair critic. I've never contributed a line of code to KDE or GNOME, though I wish I knew enough that I could. Any flame war I start or get into (or avoid :) is indicative of me as a user, not KDE or GNOME themselves.
m l so we don't become like the *** crowd. :)
Which isn't to deny the validity of your underlying issue; many Linux users need to read the Linux Advocacy HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.ht
actually given the swift evolution of computers I would say major changes will come, or will need to come, in about 1-2 years. By then I think we can expect fully consistent drag and drop support, as well as anti aliased fonts and more advanced transparency (for all you transparent rxvt freaks out there :). Of course the other, minor things should be ironed out by then, such as theme pack design utilities, and menus that can be placed anywhere in the program window. I would not cry if KDE made a windows/internet explorer system out of konqueror, for the desktop. I like drag and drop and I like the ease of use of windows, with the power of linux. I also see audio and video editing applications coming to the desktop (no doubt a lot of it being commercial), as well as a LOT of games. :)
I have some questions. How does KDE plan on reconciling the differences between the QPL and the GPL? Source modifications apparently can only be released in the form of patches, and Stallman says it is incompatible with the GPL. Also, what are the terms of the rumored version 2.0 of the QPL? Or is there even such a thing?
:) Is this possible?
Also, will KDE 2.0 have the ability to drag and drop objects between KDE/non-KDE applications? I keep hearing about an old drag and drop protocol in X, but I never see any apps actually using it in any way I can tell. KDE does it with kfm but I'd like to, say, drag a mp3 over to koffice and have it embedded, or to kmp3/xmms/gqmpeg and have it load up automatically.
thanks
is linux/AIM vulnerable?
It is the tone that made it look like a racist remark. It reeked of stereotypes. The exact quote is: Welcome to Vietnam, plenty of humidity and all the rice you can eat.
Heh. Wanna talk about strategy? Try Risk. Or any SSI board game. That's strategy. Even if it is turn based, it is still superior. Heck, try SSI online and look up their simulations, those whip the tar out of anything Blizzard and Westwood have done. I prefer Panzer General over Command and Conquer any day.
why would the military be even looking at starcraft and total annihilation and command and conquer as any kind of reference tool?
[recruiter]: Why do you want to join the US Army?
[moron]: I've played 8000 hours of Starcraft and I am ranked #1 on BattleNet! I can whup any enemy!
[recruiter]: Hmmmmm. I see. Well I think you have potential. See that man with the white jacket at the door?...
I am not arguing with anyone. I am not giving my money to someone who won't support a product. I'm not going to buy this game and then spend hours downloading it on my 57.6ahem53.0 connection. There's no way. It ain't gonna happen. end of discussion.
AOL has worked hard towards improving its security, after all those 1996-1997 break-ins with AOHell and all the 'email me your password' scams. In fact the last time I heard of someone hacking into AOL was about 1997. Which isn't to say AOL or any other network can ever be considered truly hack proof, but their security appears to be greatly improved.
You mean like the Windows 98 demonstration where Bill Gates experienced a crash in front of millions of viewers? :)